I regularly post analyses showing that South Dakota’s low wages, especially South Dakota’s bottom-of-the-barrel teacher wages, are not justified by any fantastical notions of lower…
Tag: cost of living
South Dakota’s minimum wage rises fifty cents tomorrow, from $9.45 to $9.95 an hour. Happy New Year, and, once again, workers, thank Democrats! But even…
In July, Governor Kristi Noem started purging prison staff and dug into one-time money to temporarily offer retention bonuses and raise pay in hopes of addressing a…
The Department of Labor announced yesterday that South Dakota’s minimum wage will increase twenty cents in 2020, from $9.10 an hour to $9.30. Tipped workers…
Todd Epp notes the irony that, even as the state bribes South Dakota counties to ignore environmental concerns and turn South Dakota into one giant…
Governor Dennis Daugaard cheers South Dakota’s mighty ascent from 51st to 48th in the nation for average teacher pay with a declaration that we are…
I heard mention of the new Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages on the radio; Bob Mercer was kind enough to provide the link to…
The illiterate SDGOP spin blog is back to appealing to the Cost of Living Fairy to justify South Dakota’s low teacher pay. In January 2016,…
South Dakota Codified Law Chapter 11-11 authorizes the South Dakota Housing Development Authority to make up for the failure of the free market to provide sufficient affordable housing and…
Governor Dennis Daugaard showed signs this winter that he was abandoning the fantasy that South Dakota’s mythical low cost of living made up for South Dakota’s low…